Lucky Foods Seoul Kimchi, (28oz / 1.75 lbs), Authentic Korean Premium Fermented Napa Cabbage Kimchi, (SPICY, Made in USA) (Pack of 1)

I’m Korean and live about 2 hours away from a Korean/Asian store and don’t always have the time to make the trek to get Korean food. I spent a lot of time researching what’s available online, and Seoul Kim Chi is about the only brand that uses Napa cabbage, ginger, garlic, salted shrimp, and fish sauce. Most of what’s online doesn’t use these ingredients and looks like it will taste like spicy sauerkraut. I was very nervous about getting Kim Chi mailed to me, but was pleasantly surprised by the taste and quality. Since it’s fresh, it will need to ferment for several days which accounts for the shipping time. Also, to the people complaining about the bag not being full, there needs to be some room in the bag for the gases that develop while it is fermenting. Explosions/leakage are possible so they have to account for that. The Kimchi has to stay in the brine (liquid part) to ferment properly, and the Kim Chi will produce more liquid as it ferments more. I will order again next time I’m out of Kim Chi and not able to make it to the Korean store anytime soon. Happy I found this, it will definitely do for the interim.

Oh my god. OH MY GOD!!! I am so, so happy. I am going to finish this way faster than I should, then I'll be out of kimchi and I will be sad again. I put it in a jar (with a burp lid) for storage instead of the bag it was in. It was shipped insulated, and with ice packs (they were still cold when I finally received it). I am WILDLY happy about this stuff, it is DELICIOUS. Amazon had me worried with the "your package is late!" messages. The listing warns this will not arrive quickly. The reviews warn this will not arrive quickly. Someone needs to communicate this to Amazon, because well before I expected the package I got Amazon notices like "Your package may have been lost!" and "Ask for a refund if it doesn't show up by yesterday!" and other such things. I think it may have been delayed in transit, not necessarily by the shipper, but who cares it got here. Either way, I trusted in the warnings about how long it might take, and sure enough... IT ARRIVED IN AN APPROPRIATE AMOUNT OF TIME IT WAS SO VERY WORTH THE WAIT, SO WORTH IT! I'm debating putting this on my automatic orders list with my vitamins and such so it shows up at delicious intervals. I could have curled up in bed with the warm (it was left on the porch) fluffy (heat and time makes fermentation go big gassy) package. I was so happy it arrived, and I trusted it was quality, and you know what? It is. It's scrumptious. I don't ever want to be without it. I let a friend try it and he's pretty hooked on kimchi now too...but he can't have any more of this batch! It's mine! MINE! If you're debating because of the price, or the length of delivery time... just put the money down, pull up a chair and wait by the door. Took about two weeks for mine to show up. It's SO worth it! Don't let Amazon freak you out with the auto 'this isn't coming from the warehouse so it's taking too long!' kind of messages. If you're worried about anything, check in with the seller. I didn't, everything was just fine. Let me end this review by saying, one more time, this is a DELICIOUS and quite AUTHENTIC kimchi. It is worth the price and worth the wait and my god it is so, SO GOOD.

Ironically, I am also located in Beaverton, Oregon, I could have gone to your kitchen to fetch it and save $13 shipping. It's not worth the total cost of $23. I will recycle the two blue ice packets. My dog is using the styro-foam as a place mat for his food and water. The flavor is balanced but I taste MSG. It is marked "spicy" but it's mild/medium in my opinion it is NOT SPICY enough. I was motivated to buy this product by my one and only AirBnB guest who lasted 3 weeks and who happened to come from Seoul Korea via North Carolina and Chicago. He was Americanized having been in America 26 years but he pointed out that my old Kim Chi was too old to eat. So I went looking in the local market (none of those many you listed) and found a mild version of it, which was too mild. Yesterday, I bought a cabbage, cost roughly $2. I have the other ingredients which will be: sea salt, clean water, fresh garlic, fresh ginger, unbleached sugar, fish sauce, very hot red pepper (Mexico and/or Thailand), fresh scallion from my yard and horseradish paste (Japanese, green stuff), enough Bragg's apple cider vinegar to cover the cabbage, several shakes 3 crabs fish sauce. I have time and had most of the ingredients already. I also have a large German style kraut vat which is in the garden with mud in it and can be put back into service as a Kim Chi vat. I learned that I like the Korean Kim Chi better than its bland German imitation. I learned that a bowl of Kim Chi by itself is satisfying and aids digestion. I also learned that eating it on a very hot day helps cool me off and helps my body keep the temperature low. The main reason I bought this (and will not buy again due to high shipping cost) is to know what the "real" Korean food taste like. So, now I know. The way I see it, my childhood of West-East-West (California-Hawaii-Israel-California-Washington-Oregon) have taught me that our future eating, spirituality and lifestyles are very likely to incorporate the best of the East into the lifestyle of the West. This is a good start. Follow up: I made my own (see photos below) and used left-over sauce plus instructions from internet google search. I ate 1/2 so far. It's great and firey hot. The cost once the brine is prepared is only the cost of one head of cabbage, about two dollars for organic red cabbage. The cost of the brine was the ingredients listed above. I had what I thought was a small amount of Japanese green hot mustard/horseradish (like that served with sushi). I combined that with five hot Mexican dried chilis. So it's quite hot and that's fine, the best part is most of the brine is still left over. I did not refrigerate it, it picked in the sun, and I intended to eat it as a raw fresh food. I will stick this jar in the fridge now to keep the brine until I go to market for another cabbage.

Like previous reviewers, the amount given to you in the bag is disappointing for the price. It comes half filled. I eat a lot of kimchi and I wanted to try this brand because of COVID-19 and I did not want to go to an Asian supermarket, if I did not have to. Taste is mediocre...it has a strong ginger taste.

I live as a college educated liberal in a small ethnically and racially homogenous blue-collar, conservative town with very limited food choices: No Kimchi, not even Napa cabbage, just a lot of processed food and a small array of average quality, conventionally-grown produce as evidenced by the PLC codes all starting with a 4. Even larger towns in this area don't offer Kimchi. I know I could make my own Kimchi, but with limited practice and no confidence of what microbes I would actually culture, I decided to try this product instead. Being absent-minded, I forgot to check on my kimchi's delivery until two days after it showed up at the post office...When I drove to the post office and picked up this kimchi, the ice was melted, the kimchi was reduced in volume considerably, yet the bag was about ready to burst from all the gas. Thus, I was delighted to see that fermentation was still occurring and my kimchi would be probiotic-rich as well as nice and...pungent. Sure enough, it was more pungent and delightfully tastier than my wildest kimchi fantasies. For, the record, I also like other pungent foods like creamy Limburger cheese and heavily blue-veined (= extra moldy) Danish blue cheese as well, so let these facts guide you in understanding the product I'm applauding here, as well as my five-star rating of it. ;-)

Disclaimer to this review: I ordered this, received it perfectly, but never tasted it. So, my review is not so much a review, but feedback intended to help others like me, who learned after the fact that I should have done more research before making the purchase. As stated, the product arrived perfectly packaged, and I can't say enough good things about the company's customer service. This feedback is for those who, like me, knew very little about Kim Chi, thought they would like it and had no idea about the extreme pungency of the food. I erroneously assumed that because I like other pickled vegetables that I would like this. But Kim Chi shouldn't be compared to things like sauerkraut. One look at the package, combined with the foul odor (yes, odor), and I realized that I would not be able to get past it. That odor lingers too ....on and around everything it comes in contact with. And now that I have done a bit more homework on it, I have also learned that it lingers on your breath as well. I think if you like it - and clearly thousands of people do - then that's great. If you have a strong sensitivity to the smell of food, and you have not tried Kim Chi, just be very aware of what you're getting into. Footnote: In conversing with the company and learning about this 'normal,' odor, I never asked for a refund. On the contrary, I felt it was my own fault for not doing more research. Still, they did refund my purchase and shipping costs. I find that level of customer service very admirable. My vote of one star is for my personal experience with the product. If I could rate the company, I would give them five stars indeed.

Spent 13 months in the Army stationed in Korea and fell in love with kimchee. I've made my own and bought a few different brands but none really measured up to when I was there. I decided to try this brand and just had some and wanted to share my thoughts on it. It's the best I've had since being in Korea and really like the fact it's not too salty. Great flavor and good heat. If you're a kimchee fan, you should enjoy this. I guess the only "negative" would be it's a little pricey but everything is these days.

I've tried ordering through Wooltari, H-mart, you name it. Mail-order kimchi is ridiculously pricey, and shipping takes a while. This was a viable option for budget and quality. The kimchi is made of napa cabbage, not the green cabbage, which makes it more like the kimchi you get in Korea. My kimchi arrived sandwiched between bubble wraps and ice packs and was a bit fermented by the time I got to it, but that was okay for me since I like my kimchi sour and spicey. I'd say the kimchi gets 6/10 on spiciness, 10/10 on convenience (as they are already chopped up). I'd say for the price, this is as good of a kimchi you can get for mail-order; and this is coming from a Korean who lived 20+ years in Korea and the other half in the US.